Today while sailing the seas of Stack Overflow, I came across the ports of piracy-prevention and piracy-protection. In these shipyards, I discovered all kinds of questions, but nothing to convince me that these tags add anything of value.

When confronted about their purpose, only piracy-protection managed to reply with a feeble:

Strategies to protect an application / software from being copied or used without permission.

1. Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?

They are ambiguous, and attempts to cover a hopelessly broad topic, which involves anything from trying to stop web-scrapers to legal action.

2. Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?

Programming related topics under this blanket can be on-topic, however the tag cannot stand on its own for any questions that would be considered on-topic.

3. Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?

No. Many tags exist for the various technologies commonly used as anti-piracy measures (obfuscation, drm, etc.). These would add something meaningful, not a blanket tag for all of them.

4. Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?

Both tags are meant to cover anti-piracy techniques, but the actual purpose for using such a tag will depend on the question.

These ports currently contain 56 and 32 questions in their harbors. I say we throw the piracy-prevention and piracy-protection tags overboard, and send them down to Davy Jones' locker! Who be with me?!?

P.S. I know discussing two tags at once is generally a bad idea, but these tags mean the exact same thing.

It would be helpful if you directly answer the questions. As it is now, your answers are full of opinion and commentary.
– TrispedFeb 3 '16 at 21:38

I think a tag for the broader topic can still have a use, as well as more specific tags such as [drm]. There should be one canonical tag and not multiple ones. There's also [software-protection]. Perhaps the [anti-piracy] tag can be the canonical one?
– kristianpFeb 4 '16 at 0:25